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Recent photos I’ve been wanting to show off, but haven’t been able to think of an excuse. I’ve therefore decided I don’t need an excuse! Here is the first “Gary Gallery” in what I intend as a periodic series: Also, … Continue reading →

Walking in the neighborhood. About a block and a half from my East Knoxville house in Tennessee — these bodacious mushrooms: Almost couldn’t believe the brazen boldness of these fungi! Just to capture the sense of scale, I plunked my … Continue reading →

Physicists at CERN — home of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — are bracing for a fresh assault on the tantalizing Higgs boson. In 2012 they used CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to generate subatomic debris that could be interpreted as traces … Continue reading →

Just saw my first summer fireflies within the past week or two. They come out, here in East Tennessee, sometime in June. Now that July has arrived, so have they, in full force. This fractal picture I drew may be … Continue reading →

The response to my Star Gate picture, posted the other day, has thrilled me. Thumbnail at the right — or visit the original post here. Nothing, however, thrills me more than the many requests I’m getting to see more of my fractal … Continue reading →

Digital art. I’ve long been a sucker for it. Lately I’ve been trying my hand at fractals, a particularly fascinating type of digital art. For me it started simply as puttering. Before I knew it, my hard drive was bursting with images. Some … Continue reading →

Thinking of you, Mom, this Mother’s Day. And every day! Hard to believe I’m just three years younger today than you were when you died, in 1991, at 68. Too soon! But what an impact you made — on the world, on me, … Continue reading →

Not every critter associated with the Knoxville Zoo resides there in an official capacity. There’s a large gray heron I’m pretty sure nests on or around the zoo property. Apparently in the wooded buffer that surrounds the exhibits. UPDATE: More bird … Continue reading →

With winter receding, I spring to my camera to catch the first flowers. Although Cheri and I work hard at surrounding our house with flowers, the biggest and best displays involve no work at all. They just happen, courtesy of … Continue reading →

What’s the most important new resource for bloggers and web designers, now that link images appear full-width on Google Plus? Most articles focus on increased website traffic, since these highly visible images click through to their target links. That’s indeed … Continue reading →